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Principia typographica. The block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany, during the fifteenth century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing. To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period (1858)

Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861 · London, Printed for the author by W. McDowall · leaf 150

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Mr. Singer on this point. I see not the smallest similarity of style. S. Leigh S. SPECULUM HUMANE SALVATIONIS. 79 forty-five chapters, with one hundred and ninety-two vignettes, is described byHeinecken* and a more ample account of it given by Mr. Dibdinf. We are happy to have it in our power to… … The volume which contains these singularly curious cuts was formerly in thecollection of the Cardinal de Brienne, and has been described by the Abbe Laire^:.It contains also, as he has noticed, a MS. decorated with rude drawings, intitled,Compilatio Librorum totius Biblice ab Adam usque ad…

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